So ... the teacher is so shiatty that a group of parents are willing to risk serious jail-time to get their children away from him. The local education authority has agreed to transfer this shiatty teacher to another school where he can do the same thing to a fresh batch of children. Problem solved.

Sensitiveborderarea:So ... the teacher is so shiatty that a group of parents are willing to risk serious jail-time to get their children away from him. The local education authority has agreed to transfer this shiatty teacher to another school where he can do the same thing to a fresh batch of children. Problem solved.

It sounds more like the parents went to the school to confront the teacher and they wouldn't let the teacher leave until they acheived their goals. The teacher refused to listen to them and the result was a stand-off that dragged on and on. Sounds like stubborn people being stubborn.

Doktr Gud Brayne:FTFA:The fifteen adults occupying the school and holding several people hostage said they want the teacher in charge of their nine-year-old children to be fired.

After their parents face the criminal/civil charges that should follow, I cannot imagine that the children of these fifteen people will come out ahead in any way here.

Anyone familiar with the french legal system able to chime in on likely penalties?

/Cost-benefits analysis, they don't has it.

For the moment they haven't been arrested, at least not whenI left for work this morning.Could get deep though, sequestration, or holding someone hostage acts of violencecommitted as a group(anti-gang law). Think they said something about 33 years.But with this non-violent type hostage tacking is kind of fashionable here at this time./can't understand why the hostages except it. days over I am going home and if you try and keep me from doing this it will lead to violence